Thomas A. Haill

TL;DR: The Z accelerator at Sandia National Laboratories delivers ∼20MA load currents to create high magnetic fields (>1000T) and high pressures (megabar to gigabar) in a z-pinch configuration, the magnetic pressure supersonically implodes a plasma created from a cylindrical wire array, which at stagnation typically generates a plasma with energy densities of about 10MJ∕cm3 and temperatures >1keV at 0.1% of solid density as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The 80-TW "Z" pulsed power facility at Sandia National Laboratories as discussed by the authors is the largest pulsed-power device in the world today, and it can discharge up to 22'MJ of energy stored in its capacitor banks into a current pulse that rises in 100'ns and peaks at a current as high as 30 MA in low-inductance cylindrical targets.

TL;DR: Spielman et al. as mentioned in this paper used one-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation to elucidate details of the magnetically accelerated flyer dynamics, and compared the simulation results with time-resolved measurements of velocity from a shock loading experiment involving a 925 μm aluminum flyer.

TL;DR: Spielman et al. as mentioned in this paper used one-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation to elucidate details of the magnetically accelerated flyer dynamics, and compared the simulation results with time-resolved measurements of velocity from a shock loading experiment involving a 925 μm aluminum flyer.

TL;DR: Spman et al. as mentioned in this paper used two-dimensional (2D) magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation to investigate the physics of accelerating flyer plates using multi-megabar magnetic drive pressures.